We study the structure of loops in networks using the notion of modulus of loop families. We introduce an alternate measure of network clustering by quantifying the richness of families of (simple) loops. Modulus tries to ...

A wide range of infectious diseases are both vertically and horizontally transmitted. Such diseases are spatially transmitted via multiple species in heterogeneous environments, typically described by complex meta-population ...

Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) has been expanding its geographical distribution with important implications for both human and
animal health. The emergence of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in the Middle East, and its continuing ...

The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is an attractive topology for HVDC/FACTS systems. In this paper a new single-phase MMC-based D-STATCOM inverter for grid connection is proposed. The proposed inverter is designed for ...

The spontaneous behavioral responses of individuals to the progress of an epidemic are recognized to have a significant impact on how the infection spreads. One observation is that, even if the infection strength is larger ...

Intentional islanding of a power system can be an emergency response for isolating failures that might propagate and lead to major disturbances. Some of the islanding techniques suggested previously do not consider the ...

In this paper, we analyze the uplink performance of an asynchronous carrier interferometry/MC-CDMA, with nonlinear parallel and serial interference cancellation techniques. Specifically, we employ the new variant of parallel ...

Objective. Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) have the potential to be valuable clinical tools. However, the varied nature of BCIs, combined with the large number of laboratories participating in BCI research, makes uniform ...

In most previous studies, distributed sensor networks are typically assumed to be memory less. In this paper, we consider a distributed sensor network with feedback at both the sensor level as well as at the fusion center. ...

International students account for 3.5% of graduate students in the US with 17% enrolled in
engineering programs in 2008. Recruiting and retention of International Graduate Students (IGS)
is an essential and important ...

Despite the robustness of complex networks has been extensively studied in the last decade, there still lacks a unifying framework able to embrace all the proposed metrics. In the literature there are two open issues related ...

Children with severe disabilities have unique individual needs. Technology-based designs intended to quantify the well-being of these children or assist them with learning or activities of daily living are often by nature ...

The paper presents a community-based social marketing (CBSM) study that was conducted at Kansas State University (KSU) to determine potential strategies to decrease energy consumption on college campuses. The study was ...

This paper introduces a novel TDMA scheme that provides enhanced throughput by employing carrier interferometry pulse shapes (CI pulse shapes). At the transmitter, CI pulse shapes are created from the superposition of N ...

This paper presents a complex systems overview of a power grid network. In recent years, concerns about the robustness of the power grid have grown because of several cascading outages in different parts of the world. ...

Corruption of photopleythysmograms (PPGs) by motion
artifacts has been a serious obstacle to the reliable use of pulse
oximeters for real-time, continuous state-of-health monitoring. In
this paper, we propose an automated, ...